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INDIAN COMPUTING OLYMPIAD

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Announcements

Dates announced for ZIO-2018 and ZCO-2018  ...

Indian team wins three medals at IOI-2017  ...

About the Indian Computing Olympiad

The Indian Computing Olympiad is a nationwide competition organized annually by IARCS. The goal of the competition is to identify school students with outstanding skills in algorithms and computer programming.

The Indian Computing Olympiad is open to all school students across the country, from any school board. Any student registered in school upto class 12 during the current academic year is eligible. There is no lower age limit for participation.

The Indian Computing Olympiad is used to select the team of four students to represent India at the International Olympiad for Informatics (IOI). IOI is one of the twelve international Science Olympiads held annually. Other prominent Science Olympiads include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Astronomy.

The first round of the Indian Computing Olympiad is in two parts.

• The Zonal Informatics Olympiad (ZIO) is a written exam. held at centres across the country.
  
  
• Alternatively, students can qualify for the second round by taking part in the Zonal Computing Olympiad (ZCO), a programming contest. The programming languages supported are C, C++, Java and Python.
  
  
• ZCO-2018 will be held on 11 November, 2017 and ZIO-2018 will be held on 18 November, 2017. Online registration will open around September, 2017.

The second round, the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI) involves programming. INOI-2018 will place in January, 2018. The programming languages supported are C, C++ and Java.

Approximately 30 students are selected from INOI for the IOI Training Camp (IOITC). IOITC-2018 will be held during May–June, 2018.

IOI-2018 will take place near Tokyo in Japan.

Please write to ico@iarcs.org.in if you have any questions or clarifications.

How to prepare for ICO

• Go through the Online Study Material for ICO. The syllabus for ZIO, ZCO and INOI is the list of Basic Topics in the Online Study Material  ...

• Join the IOI online community  ...

• Solve problems online at the IARCS Problems Archive  ...

Incentives for students

Codechef conducts a monthly programming contest Lunch Time through Codechef for Schools and offers incentives for IOI through the Go for Gold for IOI programme  ...

The following academic institutions in India have special admission procedures for ICO students.

• Amrita University offers fully funded B.Tech. Honors CSE programme for students who perform well in ICO  ...
  
  
• Chennai Mathematical Institute offers direct admission to students selected for IOITC in Class 12  ...
  
  
• IIIT Delhi offers bonus marks to students selected for INOI and IOITC  ...
  
  
• IIIT Hyderabad offers admission via the Olympiad category to students selected for IOITC  ...

The following international academic institutions have special admission procedures for IOI students.

• The Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada, offers Michael and Ophelia Lazaridis Olympiad Scholarships to IOI medallists  ...

Our partners

The Indian Computing Olympiad is held in partnership with:

• Sasken Communication Technologies, who sponsor the IOI Training Camp and the travel expenses for the Indian team to IOI.
  
  
• Tata Consultancy Services, whose TCS iON platform is used to conduct ZIO.
  
  
• CodeChef, whose platform is used to conduct ZCO and INOI.
  
  
• Jed-i, who provide administrative support.

From 2001-2002 to 2013-2014, ZIO and INOI were coordinated through the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE). ZCO-2016, INOI-2016 and ZCO-2017 were held on the TCS iON platform.